So i brewed my first beer about two years ago. It was an amber ale from a kit, that i brewed and bottled with seemingly few mistakes. The beer had a nasty almost metallic taste when i tried it weeks after bottling. A few months later, still gross. A year later, still bad. A year and a half later, sick!

Today, i had overcarbed a beer i kegged a couple of weeks ago, and after a good stir after pouring the beer, it was delicious. Before stirring, it tasted much like my very first brew. So maybe i should stir my first brew...

So this evening i take out the ole bottles resting in the basement (about 35 of them) and put a few in the fridge. After they were cooled i poured one, gave it a big stir (with many bubbles rising to the surface), and tried it. ITS GOOD!!!! I couldn't believe it. I'm about to taste my third

Interesting. I haven't had any metallic tastes in bottled beers, but the Mrs. and I accidentally killed a Boston Lager clone (done with ale yeast), and it developed a RANCID taste after a couple weeks. It was passible for a while, but then it got hideous - like someone put a couple rank pennies in your glass when your weren't looking. That's what we get for racking off without seeing that it was cascading to the bottom of the keg, and not filling from the bottom...